F. L. Lucas - Style (1955)

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Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

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This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.

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Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

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The simile sets two ideas side by side; in the metaphor they become superimposed.

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A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.

F. L. Lucas